What Does It Mean When It's Not Free

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"What does it mean when it’s not free?" The question tells not free means we need to use cash or credit card to buy things that we wanted before we can use it or have it. Roughly, free means "at no cost". This shows that Microsoft operating systems need to be bought before we can use the software and it is not free unless it is crack from the internet (not recommended). Nowadays, there are so many free software such as Linux. Free software or in other word is libre software which is software that can be freely used, modified, and distributed with only one restriction: every version of the redistributed software must be distributed provided the original use, modification, and distribution conditions. The features may be different …show more content…

One of the main reasons why Windows users are often unwilling to change their operating systems are because of the Windows are ease of use. Users that familiar with the first versions of Windows maybe also find that the newer ones are easy to work with. This is ascribable to everything from the standardize look and feel of almost all programs written for Windows to the way the file system has been presented ever since the days of MS-DOS (disk A:\, disk C:\, etc.).
Available software that Microsoft have. If we need an application to suit a business needs, chances are that if it exists there will be a Windows version of it available somewhere. There is a huge selection of software that are available for Windows. This is both due to and the reason for Microsoft's dominance the world market for PC computer operating systems and office software nowadays.
Microsoft backwards compatibility, sometimes we need something more up to date but currently we are using an older version of Windows, and we don't want to lose the use of some older programs that are only available for Windows and are critical to your business needs, the chances are good (although not a certainty) that those programs will also work with the latest version of